Sylva Explained

Sylva may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Sylva (Snarky Puppy album), 2015
• Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, a 1664 work by John Evelyn
• Sylva, a 1960 novel by Jean Bruller
• Sylva, A Tale of Thirty Three Trees, a novel 2020

People

People with the given name

• Sylva Ashworth (1874–1958), an American chiropractor
• Sylva Kelegian (born 1962), American actress
• Sylva Koscina (1933–1994), Italian actress
• Sylva Langova (1921–2010), Czech actress
• Sylva Lauerová (born 1962), a Czech writer and poet
• Sylva Macharová (1893–1968), a Czech nurse
• Sylva Stuart Watson (1894–1984), British theatre manager
• Sylva Zalmanson (born 1944), a Soviet-born Jewish activist, artist and engineer

People with the surname

• Buddy DeSylva (1895–1950), American songwriter
• Carmen Sylva (1843–1916), German writer and poet, nom de plume of Elisabeth of Wied, queen consort of Romania
• Marguerite Sylva (1875–1957), Belgian mezzo-soprano
• Rene Sylva (1929–2008), American botanist
• Timipre Sylva (born 1964), Nigerian politician
• Tony Sylva (born 1975), Senegalese footballer
• Vincent Da Sylva (born 1973), Senegalese basketball player

Places

• Sylva, North Carolina, U.S.
• Sylva (river), Russia
• Sylva, Perm Krai, Russia
• Lake Sylva, on the campus of The College of New Jersey, U.S.

Other uses

• Sylva Autokits, a British kit car manufacturer
• Sylva Foundation, a British tree and forestry charity

See also

• Silva (disambiguation)
• Sylvanian Families, a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal figures made of flocked plastic